W. ‚Jim‘ Willis 
Tinkertown [EPUB ebook] 
A Wheatfield, an Airbase, and Us. Foreword by General Roger Brady, USAF, (ret.)

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Tinkertown: A Wheatfield, an Airbase, and Us tells the unique story of the founding and first three decades of both Tinker AFB and Midwest City, Oklahoma, and the role its founder, W.P. ‚Bill‘ Atkinson played in harvesting a city out of cropland in But it is also a human drama, told through the eyes of the author and his friends who grew up there in the early years from the 1940s to the 1970s. It is an anecdote driven story that addresses a key question in life: How much of who I am is where I’m from? The story of both the base and the city are brought up to the present day in the final two chapters.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (by General Roger Brady)

Prologue: Blending History and Memoir

Chapter 1: The Coming War and the Need for Tinker

Chapter 2: A Very Thematic Man and his City of Tomorrow

Chapter 3: New Kid in a New Town

Chapter 4: Growing up in Tinkertown

Chapter 5: The Risks We Took

Chapter 6: Just Look at our Names

Chapter 7: The Ups and Downs of School

Chapter 8: Moving Toward Maturity

Chapter 9: A Monochrome Town Finds Diversity

Chapter 10: Keeping the Planes Flying

Chapter 11: Fighting to Save Tinker

Chapter 12: Tinkertown Today

Chapter 13: Bittersweet Homecomings

Appendix: Selected Chronology of Events

Chapter Notes

Bombers Codas I & II

Index by Chapters

About the Author

Über den Autor

Jim Willis is a veteran journalist and author of 18 books. He grew up in the town he writes about here, and he holds the Ph D in journalism from the University of Missouri.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 352 ● ISBN 9798869324825 ● Dateigröße 4.6 MB ● Verlag ArtStrings, LLC ● Erscheinungsjahr 2024 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 9407131 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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